Job Description

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II on the Platform team, you will uncover issues and technical challenges across the engineering teams and platforms, and develop creative solutions to resolve them. You will strive towards the right balance between enforcing standardization and accommodating uniqueness. The person in this role will have a chance to demonstrate a degree of autonomy with their work and help with complex support requests and have an impact across engineering.

Who You Are:

• Strong sense of ownership with a proactive nature
• Motivated by sharing knowledge and excited by what can be done when a group of people are aligned in their vision
• Possess a great desire to collaborate, improve, and innovate
• Passionate about observability at scale and finding solutions to issues.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate, drive, and execute architectural discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Influence cross team projects and SREs technical roadmap to enable engineering and help Checkr customers.
• Design, build, ship, and maintain the core software libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of Checkr’s engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality.
• Provide consultation and feedback across teams to ensure we are building highly reliable systems.
• Present detailed technical information and benefits of the Checkr platform to a wide array of customers, including operations, developers, technical architects, and executives.

What You Bring:

• Degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 3+ years experience as a software engineer (Ruby, Python, or GoLang)
• 3+ years experience in maintaining and observing production customer facing environments in AWS or Azure
• 3+ Experience as incident commander or response team member of an outages in production
• Experience with containers and container orchestration
• Understanding of the basic concepts of infrastructure behind a micro-service architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous queueing models
• Strong collaboration, documentation, communication, and project management skills
• Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
• A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams

Application Instructions:

• Not specified. (Please refer to Checkr's career website for application instructions.)